Device for moving the eyes of dolls



Sept. 18, 1928.

' o. RESCH DEVICE FOR MOVING THE EYES OF DOLLS Filed March 16, 1927Err/gra er.-

Patented Sept. 18, 1928.

UNITED STATES OSKAB RESCH, OF NEUSTADT, NEAR COBURQ, GERMANY.

DEVICE FOR MOVING THE EYES OF DOLLS.

Application filed March 16, 1927, Serial No. 175,759i, and in GermanyDecember 20, 1926.

The present invention has for its object a dolls head provided with eyesmoving in all directions. It is a special feature of this invention,that it allows an easy and perfect movability of the eyes. The devicesknown up to now for moving the eyes have the drawback, that thearrangement of the eyes within the head is made in a circumstantialmanner causing great friction, whereby the movability is greatlyreduced. It is furthermore necessary to fasten the device for moving theeyes by means of a connecting member to the skull cover, whereby themovability of the eyes is still further reduced.

According to the present invention the said drawbacks are obviated andthe suspension of the device on the skull cover is avoided. The easymovability of the eyes is secured by guiding members, between which theeye balls are journalled. By providing furthermore a weight on a proecting lever, the displacement of the centre of gravity caused by theslightest inclination of the head is transmitted to an oscillatingbridge member connecting the eye balls, said bridge member allowing analteration of its width so that it can be used without difliculty forany distance of the eyes required for dolls of various size.

The annexed drawings show by way of example the present invention, inwhich Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 across section of adolls head. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 illustrate different parts of the device inside elevation.

According to the present invention the device for moving the eyes isarranged in the interior of the dolls head and consists of the eyes aprovided with horizontal pins 1), which are bent to form verticalprojections 12. The two pins 6 of the eyes are connected with each otherby means of an oscillating bridge member 0 consisting of two parts atand e. Each ofthese parts is provided on its outer end with a loop i,which engages with the vertically bent pin 6. The bridge member 0 isadjustable in its longitudinal direction in such a manner, that the onepart (Z carries on its upper and lower edge an overlapping projection g,while the other part 6 slides beneath these projections 9, whereby bothparts of the bridge member can be moved k, which are fixed within thehead at acertain distance from each other and provided with circularholes having on their peripheries vaulted rims z registering with theroundness.

of eye balls. Between the space formed by the blades 72. the eye ballsat are journalled. The oscillating bridge member 0 carries on its loweredge a weight Z serving as an abutment against a bufi'er secured in theinside-of the head for the bridge member during its movement whilst onthe upper edge of the bridge member a lever m projecting in a verticaldirection to the longitudinal axis of the bridge member is provided. Onthe outer end of this lever m a weight n is attached.

By the method of supporting the eyes be tween the guiding blade membersand by the arrangement of the weights on the oscillatmg bridge member itis attained that the centre of gravity is displaced at the slightestinclination of the head and that an uniform movement of the eyes takesplace immediately without hindrance.

What I claim is:

A device for moving the eyes of dolls in all directions, comprising incombination eye ballshaving horizontal pins bent to form verticalprojections; an oscillating bridge member consisting of two partsadapted to slide in each other; overla ping projections provided on thelower an the upper edge of one of the said two parts, beneath which theother is slidably received; loops arranged on the one end of each of thesaid two parts and engaged with the said vertical projections; twoguiding blades extending rearward'ly from the front wall of the dollhead and provided with eye apertures aligned with the eye sockets; eyeballs mounted movably in said apertures and sockets; vaulted rimsprovided on the peripheries of said apertures register with theroundness of the eye balls and weights arranged on said bridge member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

OSKAR RESCH.

